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News - Archive 2006

Jonathan B. Wiener, Perkins Professor of Law and Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy Studies at Duke University, was elected the next president of the international Society for Risk Analysis (SRA).

Professor of the Practice Tony Brown to Take "Entrepreneurial Learning" Methods to Robertson Scholars Program at UNC and Duke After 12 years, Brown will leave "best job at Duke" for opportunity to encourage great students to act on their biggest ideas. [article]

Saving energy In an effort to help local families reduce home energy use, students in public policy professor Tony Brown’s community leadership course delivered packages of energy-saving light bulbs to the Durham County Department of Social Services for free distribution. [article]

Through ActionAid, second-year master’s students Dave Cohen and Kenzie Strong worked on capacity building projects in Kapchorwa, Uganda with local community-based organizations, including the Benet Lobby Group. Cohen’s and Strong’sWeb site-- full of beautiful photographs of the region, the people and their work -- chronicles their experiences during the summer of 2006.

There is a trend among behavioral scientists to view ever more complex “attitudes” and/or “systems of belief” as in some sense genetically determined, or heritable. Current research by Assistant Professor of Public PolicyEvan Charneyrefutes the idea that political orientations could be genetically transmitted.Read the paper.

First Duke senior Jimmy Soni read the books about the dramatic last years of the Soviet Union and its collapse. Then, thanks to an undergraduate research opportunity with Bruce Jentleson, got to meet the man behind the books.

Thwarted bomb plot in London reflects strong international cooperation against terrorism, but security gaps still exist that can be exploited by terrorists, says David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security. [article]

Mark Pike wanted to take a cross-country road trip, but with gas prices at an all-time high and policymakers bemoaning America’s addiction to oil, Pike’s nostalgic vision collided head on with his sense of right and wrong. [article]

In light of the surgeon general's recent report on secondhand smoke, it's clear that the smokers aren't the only ones who bear the cost of their habit, says assistant professor of public policy studies a health policy professor Donald Taylor. [article]

Foundations need to become “relentlessly and thoroughly transparent” in their operations if they are to avoid government regulation, saysJoel Fleishman, professor of public policy and law and the founding director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. [article]